Miner&#39;s lamp.



W. P. RICE;

MINERS LAMP.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1912.

1,062,504. Patented May 20, 1913.

ammo v T WIZZiamPB/we WILLIAM P. RICE, OF REGINA, KENTUCKY.

MINER/S LAMP.

Application filed September 11, 1912.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1913.

Serial No. 719,795.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. RICE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Regina, in the county of Pike and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Miners Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to miners lamps and the principal object of the invention is to improve upon the structure shown in my Patent No. 1,024,362 of April 28, 1912. In this structure the hot air tube was arranged upon the outside of the spout on the top of the same. In the present type the air tube is arranged upon the underneath side of the wick so that the heating element therein cannot be brought into engagement with the walls of the mine.

Another object of the invention is to provide a quick lighting device for the lamp. In these lamps they burn a by-product commonly known as miners sunshine which becomes non-fiuid when cold. It is essential therefore to the successful burning of the lamp that a rapid circulation of heated air be set up in the lamp when the same is immediately lighted, and it is the object of this invention to provide means for accomplishing this result in a simple and convenient manner.

Further objects of this invention will appear as the following specific description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application,,and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the quick lighting device inserted in the spout. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view with the quick lighting device withdrawn. Fig. 3 is a top plan view partially in section. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the wick perforating tool.

Referring more particularly to the drawing the lamp preferably comprises a frustoconical shape body 1 constructed of any suit able material and provided with a wick tube or spout 2 inclined from a point adjacent the bottom of the body outwardly therefrom and communicating with the interior of the body. The wick tube or spout carries the usual wick 3 which absorbs the fuel when melted and conducts the same by capillary attraction where it is consumed. The body is also provided with a removable cap I which permits the filling of the body with the fuel and has secured thereto adjacent its top the ordinary and well known hook or hanger 5' which may be connected to the miners cap in the usual manner. Secured to and extending throughout the length of the tube 2 and lying upon the lower side thereof is a hot air tube 6 which terminates at its lower end in a semi-circular pipe 7 arranged upon the bottom of the body and having a vertical extension opening into the body above the line of fuel in the lamp.

Arranged in the outer end of the tube is a heating device consisting of a tube 9 rotatably mounted in the tube 6 and having a right-angular extension 10 adapted to be carried over the flame so as to conduct the heat of said flame to the tube 9 whereby air running through said tube into the tube 6 will be properly heated. The tube 9 and its outer right-angular extension 10 are removably arranged within the tube 6 and by being rotatably mounted therein the heater may be turned over the flame or out of the path of the same as is found desirable.

The quick lighting device consists of a pin 11 having one end sharpened and the opposite end provided with a ring 12 by which the pin may be manipulated. Pushing the pin through the wick into the body when the fuel is cold and hard will form a hole in the wick which will serve to conduct the heated air out of the body thereby heating the fuel in the body and in the wick in a rapid manner so that the oil will flow to the wick as it is consumed at the outer end.

WVhat is claimed is In a miners lamp a body having a wick tube projecting outwardly therefrom and having a wick arranged therein, an air tube coextensive with the wick tube and arranged within the same on the underside, the inner end of said tube extending into the body In testimony whereof I afiix my signature and terminating in an open Vertical extenin presence of two witnesses.

sion, a heating tube rotatably mounted in the outer end of the air tube and having a VILLIAM RICE right angular extension adapted to be swung Witnesses:

into and out of the path of the flame of the J. E. RATLILIF,

wick when ignited. J. M. POTTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. C. 

